GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU is the third catalog record of NVIDIA's entry Ampere silicon — the same 2048-core chip the catalog also tracks as the RTX 3050 and its 6GB variant, each record capturing a different test sample and power profile. This guide covers its 29 benchmarked games at 1080p on high (13 with medium-preset data) and the 230 matched models in the catalog pool.

Where the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU sits in 2026

A catalog score of 59.9 puts this record at 83rd of 341 — inside the 3050 family's band that stretches from 70th to 89th place. The immediate neighbors are a mix of eras: the RTX 2060 with Max-Q Design (60) and RTX 2080 Super Max-Q (60) above, the Radeon RX 6700S (59.9) alongside, and the Quadro P5200 (59.6), RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU (59.5) and RTX 2080 Max-Q (59.1) just below. That spread tells the real story: depending on the sample, a 3050 trades blows with late-Pascal flagships and AMD's small RDNA 2 die.

What the chip brings

This is Ampere on the 8nm process: 2048 CUDA cores with RT and tensor cores (DLSS is flagged in the record), 4GB of GDDR6 memory and a 75W envelope for this record. Public benchmarks land at PassMark 11878, Time Spy 4497, Fire Strike 11949 — the same PassMark figure carried by every record in the family, which is the clearest fingerprint that these four entries are one silicon measured repeatedly. The distinguishing number is the compute score: GeekBench Vulkan 51690 for this 75W sample, the third step of the family's descending ladder. Resizable BAR support is flagged.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset the esports tier is locked in: Counter-Strike 2 at 170 fps, Valorant at 150, DOTA 2 at 118, Fortnite at 110, with the legacy capped quartet (CS:GO, Overwatch, GTA V, PUBG) at their 240/140 ceilings. The racing block scales well on medium: F1 2021 goes from 105 to 127, F1 23 from 87 to 109 and F1 22 from 86 to 106. Modern titles land playable-but-modest: The Witcher 3 at 81, Far Cry 5 at 68, Cyberpunk 2077 at 66 on high, Resident Evil 4 remake at 50, Baldur's Gate 3 at 45 and Metro Exodus at 49. The 4GB buffer remains the family's defining constraint on texture-heavy settings.

Laptops that carry it

Like every 3050 record, this one draws from a 230-model pool dominated by the 2025 generation: Alienware 16 Aurora at $2220, the OMEN 16 Slim at $1665, ASUS TUF Gaming F16 and Acer's Nitro V 15/16 at $1440, Lenovo's LOQ 15ARP10E at $1440 and HP Victus 15 listings from $1256 — plus thin business machines like the ProBook 4 and EliteBook 6 G1i at $1144 that use the 75W profile. Note that the pool is shared across the family's name variants: listings match the 3050 name family, not one specific record. Fleet medians describe modern mid-range machines — best-GPU score 72.7, gaming index 72, USComp score 78.5 — reflecting the machines' stronger configuration options rather than this chip alone.

Bottom line

As the third record of the family, this page's value is comparative: it confirms the 3050's honest band rather than a single number. For a buyer, the practical read is unchanged — 1080p high gaming in nearly everything except the heaviest modern releases, DLSS as the safety net, 4GB as the ceiling. Cross-check the other three 3050 records in the catalog to see how much sample and power variance moves the same silicon: about four score points and ten percent of compute throughput between the strongest and weakest entries.